Children Quote by Sandra Scarr

Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to…

— Sandra Scarr

Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does…

— Sandra Scarr

It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family… The advantage of this view…

— Sandra Scarr

Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday…

— Sandra Scarr

We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality. The issue…

— Sandra Scarr

Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed whenmother leaves to go to work.…

— Sandra Scarr

Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to…

— Sandra Scarr

Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings of any…

— Sandra Scarr

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be…

— Sandra Scarr

Day care poses no risk for children, provided that it is high quality… Poor quality day care is risky for children everywhere… The cost…

— Sandra Scarr

Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were so fragile…

— Sandra Scarr

Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that…

— Sandra Scarr